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No. 694,509. Patented Mar. 4, |902.

(i. W. -WINCKFIELL GAME. -mAppumiml ma n. i4, 1901.)

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GEORGE W. VINCKFIELD, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOII. H. HOYT AND ELVA HOYT, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,509, dated March 4,1902. Application filed February 14,1961. Serial No. 47,351. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE W'. VINCK- squares being of contrasting colorand alter- FIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing natelyarranged in straight lines. The marat Oakland, in the county of Alamedaand ginal fields 2 are oblong and checkered ordi- 5 State of California,have invented certain new vided into squares corresponding with the cen-55 and useful Improvements in Gaines; and I traliield. Each of the outeriields2contains do hereby declare the following to hea full, twenty-foursquares,whereas the central eld clear, and exact description of theinvention, contains sixty-four squares. The corner rests Y such as willenable others skilled in the art to 3 are square, and diagonal linessubdivide 1o which it appertains to make and use the same. them intofour triangular -shaped spaces, 6o

' This invention relates to a game, and conthree ofvwhich are used toreceive the capsists of a board and movable 'pieces or 1nen tui-ed menof the opponents and the fourth and fiags, the latterbeingdetachably'fittedA to hold .the flags for attachment to the men to themen to distinguish them as kings afterh 'successful in reaching thefield 2 of an oppoentering an opponents field or goal. The nent. i' Y 65board has a central field, marginal fields, and l There are forty-eightmen or pieces 4, twelve corner rests all in the same plane and`l sepa.for each player, and these men are of a difrated from one another Vbyheavy or distinferent color to distinguish the pieces of one guishinglines. The middle or central field lplayer from the pieces of the otherplayers.

2o is square and the marginal fields are oblong, For instance, there aretwelve white, twelve 7o and all the fields are checkered or subdividedblack, twelve red, and twelve green pieces. into small squaresofcontrasting colors alter- These pieces are of spool shape and centrallynately arranged after the manner of a checker bored, 'and their ends areenlarged alike, so or chess board. The cornervrests are square thateither end may-be placed uppermost and z5 and subdivided into fourtriangular spaces used either as a base or a finger-grip, 5

by crossing diagonal lines. i Two, three, or four persons can play theFor a full description of-.the invention and game, and when four haveentered they may the merits thereof and also to acquire a play partnersor individually. Each player knowledge of the details of Yconstructionof enters his twelve pieces upon corresponding 3o the means for eectingthe result reference is squares of the marginal fields. The first 8o tobe had to the following description and player Vmoves from the outeradjacent field 2 drawings hereto attached. onto the central field in adiagonaldirection,

While the essential and characteristic feaas in the game of checkers.The other players tures of the invention are necessarily suscepmakesimilar'moves in successive order. A

tible of modification, still the preferred emplayer captures anopponents piece when on 85 bodiment of the invention is illustrated inan adjacent diagonal square and there is a the accompanying drawings, inwhich-e space beyond and adjacent the man to be cap- Figure l is a planView of the game-board. tured. The captured pieces are placed upon Fig.2 is a detail View of the men. Fig. Sie the space of the corner resteither to the right no 'a detail view of the flags. Fig. 4 shows ya manor to the left of the player, as may be deter- 9o raised to ahigherorder by the attachment of mined upon. The pieces must be advanced aflag thereto. Y. and cannot move back. When a piece hasyCorresponding-and like parts are referred "entered the field of anopponent, it becomes to in the following description and indicated aking, and a fiag is attached thereto by fitin all the views of thedrawings by the same vting its stad into an opening formed in the 95reference characters. l top of the piece. A king can move forward Theboard 1 maybe of any material, size,aud or backward,like a crownedchecker-piecein a thickness and is preferably square. The cen-l game ofcheckers. tral portion l forms a field common to'all the The flags 5correspond in color to the men 50 :players and is square and subdividedinto 4, there being twelve white, twelve black, loo

twelve red, and twelve green. These flags are fitted to the men onlywhen they have entered an opponents field.

By having the rests subdivided and the spaces corresponding in color tothe colors of the different pieces 4 a playercan determine at a glancehow many pieces of each opponent he has captured. The player wins whohas one or more pieces on the board at the finish. Rules may be mutuallyagreed upon for playing the game to varyand make the saine moreinteresting.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is .Againe-board having a square central field subdivided into contrastingsquares, and having an oblong field at each edge of the central fieldsimilarly subdivided into squares and separated from the central fieldby a well-defined line, and having corner rests divided intotriangularfshaped spaces by diagonal lines, said spaces being of'contrasting color, substantially as set forth.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

GEORGE W. WINCKFIELD.

Witnesses:

R. C. ANDERSON, W. H. WEGNER.

